Office Chair Yoga: Side Stretches

Video Transcript

"Next, we're going to stretch our sides, if you have an armrest you can place one arm on the armrest. If you don't, you can just place it at your side or let your arm hang at the side. So doing the right arm first, we inhale reaching the arm up and then exhale, leaning over to the side. You want to reach the fingertips up to the ceiling and exhale lengthening, deepening the stretch over to the side. Making sure, you keep both hips on your seat the entire time. Inhale extending reaching up exhale dropping over farther into the stretch. Deep breath up, exhale over into the stretch and with your next breath bringing through center and we'll do the same thing on the other side. Again, you can let the arm drop to the side or place it on your armrest. Left arm coming up with the inhale and exhale taking it over, keeping both hips on the floor. Deep breath in as you reach up and exhale lengthening over to the side. Again inhale up and exhaling over, one more breath in, exhale over and then bringing it back to center and feeling how wonderful the effects of that stretch are."